fatal error 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'updates'

[Scott Givan]

I'm getting a fatal error while installing Rocks7 in a VM environment using VMWare Fusion 8 Pro. I'm trying to follow the Rocks7 demo installation video as much as possible. The fatal error occurs while the message "Starting package installation process" is at the bottom of the Anaconda window just above the progress line (that message was there for a while before the error message appeared, though). The error message is:

unexpected error: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'updates'

I did not include the kvm or openvswitch rolls. I included the CentOS update roll. Maybe that's causing the problem?

[Scott Givan]

This seemed to be related to providing a FQDN as a hostname. Since this was a VM on a private network, I was just giving it a simple hostname.

[Trevor Cooper]

Scott,

While I haven't installed in a VMWare or VirtualBox environment yet you might want to use example.org (or other RFC2606 TLD) as the TLD for your test cluster in your virtual environment.

For a 'real' cluster you likely want to have external DNS working even if the cluster is running in an RFC1918 address range.

Definitely do not use .local for your public interface.

Trevor

[Scott Givan]

Thanks Trevor.